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Welcome to the Sunderland website for children who are disabled, have special educational needs, or a long term health condition.


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which offers more about Aiming High

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Sunderland has been selected by the Government to be a pathfinder in the Aiming High for Disabled Children programme which will transform services for disabled children and young people and their families. How will we do this?
  • giving more families the type of short breaks they want
  • giving families better information about the support they can get
  • being open and upfront about which children and young people can use each service
  • really listening to what disabled children and young people and their families want and acting on this.

To make this happen, a lot of new funding has been provided over the next 3 years. In 2008-09 we have nearly £300,000 and in 2009-10 and 2010-11 we will have almost £1 million per year. As a pathfinder, Sunderland will be expected to lead the way in developing the services and ways of working that families want and that work best.

A Participation Fund has been established as part of the Aiming High Programme to enable disabled children to participate in activities that they would like to do, but where there is currently a barrier preventing them from doing so.


Sunderland Strategy for Children and Young People with a Learning Difficulty or a Disability (LDD)

Parents and carers and practioners from a range of agencies have been working together to develop a Sunderland LDD strategy.  The purpose of the strategy is to develop a co-ordinated, partnership, lifespan approach to improving outcomes for children and young people with a learning difficulty or a disability (LDD).

Cllr Patricia Smith, Portfolio Holder for Children's Services and Dr Helen Paterson, Director of Children's Services are invitiing parents and carers to take part in the consultation on the strategy, which is taking place between March and June 2009.  Copies of the draft strategy and the consultation questions, and the invitation to take part can be downloaded.  Completed questionnaires are to be returned to Kathryn Rutherford by 14th May 2009. 


Welcome to the Real Issues website for Sunderland. This site is designed for children and young people living in Sunderland who are disabled, have special educational needs, or a long term health condition, and their families. It will also be a useful resource for the professionals working with them.

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The site is designed to pull all the information families tell us they need into one place.

  • In the Information Directory you will find entries about a whole range of specialist and mainstream services and organisations, organised under convenient headings. 
  • There are newsletters and application forms which can be downloaded, and links into other sites of interest. 
  • What’s On contains details of the latest local and national events
  • News is regularly updated to keep you informed of what is happening in the area of child health, disability and special educational needs, both in Sunderland, the UK and the world.

Children and young people can go to the Young People’s Pages to find information written especially with them in mind. For a quick guide to services, download the 2008 Signposting booklet.


If you are looking for something in particular, you can use the search feature, and if you don’t find what you are looking for, please contact us and we shall try and put this right.  Please also contact us if any of the links on the site do not work.

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Published : 19/05/2009 Terms Contact :child.disability@sunderland.gov.uk